Latham & Watkins · 1 day ago
OGC Senior Manager - Training & Development, Quality Control, Compliance & Intake
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $200K/yr
8+ years expLatham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The OGC Senior Manager – Training & Development, Quality Control, Compliance & Intake will lead critical functions within the Compliance & Intake team, ensuring high-quality operations and strategic oversight across various teams.
Law Practice
Hiring Manager
Jordyn Nyer
Responsibilities
Building a cohesive leadership cohort across the three functions while setting clear goals, coaching managers and supervisors, and conducting performance evaluations, in addition to modeling strong people leadership, developing successors, and empowering decision-making
Championing cross-training and cross-collaboration initiatives to ensure consistent practices and coverage, reducing operational risk, and enhancing career development, while removing roadblocks and establishing shared goals
Collaborating with OGC leaders and subject matter experts to set direction for training programs, frameworks, and documentation, with execution owned by department leaders, while setting the training strategy and accountability framework for non-attorney conflicts staff, and ensuring managers are accountable for delivery, maintaining current content, and aligning the Conflicts Learning Library/internal KM resources with system enhancements
Establishing key performance indicators, dashboards, and review cadences for workflow timeliness and data
Providing governance and escalation support for Compliance & Intake operations, ensuring policies and procedures are consistently applied and continuously improved, while focusing on leadership and accountability
Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains
Qualification
Required
Possess significant experience managing high-performing teams in a professional services environment, including experience as a manager-of-managers, with demonstrated success in coaching leaders, conducting performance reviews, and building cross-functional collaboration
Exhibit strong leadership competencies, including goal setting, delegation, feedback, change management, and decision-making under time pressure, with the ability to exercise independent judgment and maintain strict confidentiality
Demonstrate proven project and program management skills with the ability to establish timelines, manage deadlines across multiple concurrent workstreams, and deliver measurable outcomes
A bachelor's degree
A minimum of eight (8) years of law-related work experience in a law firm or other professional services firm, at a large law firm, preferably
A minimum of ten (10) years of cumulative experience
Supervisory experience and prior experience in conflicts, compliance, or new business intake within a law firm, preferably
Benefits
Healthcare, life and disability insurance
A generous 401k plan
At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
Professional development programs
Employee discounts
Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff
Company
Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with more than 3,500 lawyers in its offices located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.
1001-5000 employees
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Chief Financial Officer
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COO
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